HB1058 - Breast cancer screening and services.

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Breast cancer screening and services. Specifies that coverage of breast cancer rehabilitative services and reconstructive surgery incident to a mastectomy includes chest wall reconstruction and aesthetic flat closure. Requires a facility performing a mammography examination to provide: (1) an assessment of the patient's breast tissue density using specified classifications; (2) written notice to the patient and the referring provider; and (3) concerning the notice to the patient, specified notification language depending on whether the facility determined the patient to have dense breast tissue or not dense breast tissue. Requires the medical licensing board of Indiana to amend an administrative code rule to remove references to "high breast density" and to align with the breast tissue density classifications in this act.